Patristic A.D. 604
“(xxv. Moral. c. 20. not in Nov. Ex. 14) And the more freely men follow their perverse desires, the more closely are they in bondage to them.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 8:31-36
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗